The Secular

At the Immanent Frame, Vincent Pecora discusses a project on religion and modernity that will be pursued there. In his essay, he has a critical summary of Habermas’s views on religion, rationality, and modernity. He notes that the concept of the secular cannot be exhausted by the invisibility of religion and that it leaves out too much when it is viewed through the lens of Christianity. In my view, his questioning of the sagacity of the Habermasian conception of progress is on the mark. His essay is worth reading and the project seems well conceived. It should produce some very interesting work.